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There’s long been an air of mystery surrounding the top echelon at Goldman Sachs (GS) — its so-called “partners,” a hold-over from the days before the company was publicly traded — including just who is a member at any given time. Now, thanks to a joint footnoted/New York Times analysis, we know just how male, [...]
Most people think of Williams-Sonoma (WSM) as a purveyor of gizmos and furnishings for the kitchen and home. Here at footnoted, we also see it as a busy part-time broker of executive aircraft. This time, they’re planning to buy the former boss’s Bombardier Global 5000, a corporate jet that Bombardier describes as a “powerful and luxurious aircraft [...]
Yesterday, we predicted that Don Blankenship wouldn’t suffer too badly in the wake of his abrupt decision to retire as chairman and chief executive of Massey Energy (MEE), the beleaguered coal producer. Late in the day, we were proven all too right. In walking Blankenship to the door, Massey’s board went well beyond a polite [...]
We thought we had a pretty good understanding of the basic rules of SEC filings, having done this for close to a decade now. But every now and then, we come across a disclosure that just makes us scratch our heads. Take, for example, the 42% raise that CKX (CKXE) granted to Priscilla Presley back [...]
News of the $1 million settlement Office Depot (ODP) has entered into with the Securities and Exchange Commission came with something of a wave of nostalgia for us here at the footnoted global campus. The feds, of course, accused the office-supply giant of giving analysts a wink and a nod in 2007 to let them [...]
